2025 Meetings

NORTH SCARLE PARISH COUNCIL

Minutes of an Extraordinary Meeting held on 13 August 2025 at 7.30pm in North Scarle Village Hall

PRESENT

Cllr K Coram                                      Cllr J Houghton

Cllr D Jennings (Chairman)              Cllr A Walsh

Cllr S Walsh

Mrs H Broderick (Clerk)

0 parishioners attended.

873     APOLOGIES

Cllr Ward had sent her apologies.

874     TO RECEIVE ANY DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

None.

875     MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 16 JULY 2025

The Chairman proposed that the draft minutes should be adopted as a true record, this was resolved and they were signed by the Chairman.

876     CLERK’S RESIGNATION

The Clerk had recently resigned from her position and the following were discussed

• Who will interview candidates for the vacancy? After discussion Cllrs Jennings, Coram and A Walsh volunteered to interview candidates and their proposals were accepted and resolved.

• Will those Cllrs have delegated responsibility to be able to decide on the successful applicant or whether that decision has to be made by full council? It was proposed by Cllr S Walsh that candidates’ applications should be shared with all Councillors by email before an interview is offered and that the interview panel should then be able to make the decision on the successful candidate. This was resolved.

The Clerk had drafted an advertisement and job description which had been shared with the Councillors. Some amendments were made and it was proposed by the Chairman that this should be published using LALC’s free service, on Facebook and our website but that the job description should be shared during the interview process.  This was resolved.

• Who will be appointed to be temporary clerk/RFO until a new clerk is employed. There was some discussion and reluctance for any individual Cllr to take on the whole responsibility. The Chairman asked Cllr Houghton if he would be prepared to deal with the finances in the short term to which he agreed and Cllr Coram volunteered to deal with the essential Clerk duties in the short term.  The Chairman will try to produce NSM but it may be delayed. These proposals were discussed and resolved.  The Clerk will arrange to see Cllr Houghton and Cllr Coram to do a handover before the end of her employment. The Chairman asked if LALC provide temporary Clerks. Clerk didn’t know if they do or what the criteria would be but will ask LALC.

The Chairman closed the meeting at 8.22pm.

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